December 30, 2004
Asian Tsunami: nature v humanity
This cartoon reverses the modernist conception of human beings as the masters of the universe, or the controllers of nature, who can bend nature to their will with a flick of their glittering technoscience.
Moir
The earthquake and tsunami highlight the modernist illusions of whipping nature into shape. Nature has real powers of its own.
A pity people do not take the ecological effects of greenhouse emissions and global warming on their region seriously.
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